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‘Star Wars’ Displayed Conservative Traits
Arjun Singh of National Review Online writes about the conservatism of “Star Wars.” The first Star Wars movie came out in 1977. The Cold War was at its apogee, and…
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Education
Martin Center columnist says humanities professors created their own problems
Rob Jenkins writes for the Martin Center about a problem academic humanists created for themselves. Every time I read an op-ed piece from some English professor (and isn’t it always…
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Surprise –‘Darth Vader’ passed over for WSPD chief
The Winston-Salem Police Department has named its new police chief to replace the retiring Barry Rountree and surprise—it’s not Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department commander Cam Selvey, whose Tweets with the Darth…
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Prospective WSPD chief’s Darth Vader tweets….
Winston-Salem Journal obtains a ‘cache’ of 20 ‘tweets and retweets’ by Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department Maj. Cameron Selvey, one of two finalists to replace retiring Winston-Salem Police Chief Barry Rountree: Selvey…
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Trump as team leader
John Fund writes at National Review Online that President Trump ought to avoid coming across as a “Lone Ranger” within his administration. Donald Trump’s accusation that the Obama administration conducted…
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Trump’s master plan … or not
Ben Shapiro writes at National Review Online that critics of President Trump should stop trying to decipher his “master plan.” Take, for instance, the rollout of Trump’s immigration order. Instead…
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Evidently the Force Wasn’t with Him
The Guardian reports that: The Star Wars character Chewbacca has been dragged before a court in Odessa, in perhaps the most surreal episode in local elections across Ukraine that have…
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Whole Foods CEO and capitalism
The latest issue of Fortune magazine devotes eight pages to a profile of Whole Foods top dog John Mackey. While no one would label Mackey as conservative, the feature story…
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The shark from Jaws is more popular than all 2016 candidates
As the Washington Post reports: Think about all the things you look for in a presidential candidate: a solid economic plan. Maybe some foreign policy experience. And how about insatiable…
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It was 35 years ago today …
… that Luke, Leia, Han, R2-D2, Obi-Wan, and Darth entered our lives. In honor of the anniversary, let’s revisit a nearly 10-year-old column from John Hood contrasting the politics of…
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Chrysler ad
Say what you want about Chrysler, but its two-minute commercial in the Super Bowl captured the heart and soul of Detroit and Detroiters. Stirring. You can have cute Darth Vader.…
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The Chamber Strikes Back – School Wars: Episode V
Cue Imperial March Is the Raleigh News & Observer secretly cheering for the school board? My first question upon seeing the headline Wake leaders strike back on schools was whether…